[Mimedefang] Parse and export to database parts

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Jeffrey Starin wrote:

> ... We are new to perl

Then you have some work to do, but I promise it will be worth it. :)

Perl is THE text processing language.  If we didn't have Perl, we'd
have to invent it.

Buy and read the following book

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Perl-Unmatched-processing-scripting/dp/0596004923

You might also buy and read

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Perl-Randal-L-Schwartz/dp/1449303587

and perhaps dip into

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Perl-Cookbook-Tom-Christiansen/dp/0596003137

If you only want to buy one of them, buy the 'Camel' book.  That's the
Perl coder's absolutely-must-have book.  Again, I promise it will be
worth it.  To back up that promise if you don't think so after reading
it three times (that's how many times I had to read it before I could
really say I'd understood it) then I'll buy it from you for the price
advertised in that link, GBP34.10 + free postage, assuming you haven't
trashed the book of course.  My latest copy is only the 3rd edition, I
have two copies each of the first two editions.  This is the only book
amongst the approximately three tonnes of books which I own of which I
have five hard copies.  I also have electronic copies, on the LAN.

> and certainly MIMEdefang and could use some hand-holding.

There are many scripts already posted on this and other mailing lists,
and there are some in the MIMEDefang distribution.  As I said you have
some work to do, but on the bright side I estimate that it's ten times
quicker to get something running in Perl as it is in, say, C.  Just be
aware that Perl can use a lot of resources compared languages like C.

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73,
Ged.